Also known as CDC68, FACTP140, SPT16/CDC68, SPT16, SPT16 homolog, facilitates chromatin remodeling subunit, NEDDFAC
FACT complex subunit SPT16 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SUPT16H gene.
Transcription of protein-coding genes can be reconstituted on naked DNA with only the general transcription factors and RNA polymerase II. However, this minimal system cannot transcribe DNA packaged into chromatin, indicating that accessory factors may facilitate access to DNA. One such factor, FACT (facilitates chromatin transcription), interacts specifically with histones H2A/H2B to effect nucleosome disassembly and transcription elongation. FACT is composed of an 80 kDa subunit and a 140 kDa subunit; this gene encodes the 140 kDa subunit. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2009].
Biological process
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FACT complex subunit SPT16 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SUPT16H gene.
== Function ==
via MyGene.info
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).